European Genizah

European Genizah

Author: Andreas Lehnardt

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-06-22

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 9004427929

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This volume includes contributions presented at two conferences, in Mainz (Germany) and Jerusalem (Israel). The articles present a number of new discoveries of binding fragments in several European libraries and beyond.


Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts Reused as Book-bindings in Italy

Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts Reused as Book-bindings in Italy

Author: Mauro Perani

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-01-04

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 9004470999

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The book represents the largest treasure trove of fragments of medieval Hebrew manuscripts found in book-bindings in Italian libraries and archives. It presents a complete bibliography and several articles by the leading scholars in the field bringing to light a large number of new discoveries.


"Genizat Germania" - Hebrew and Aramaic Binding Fragments from Germany in Context

Author: Andreas Lehnardt

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010-03-08

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9047443845

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“Genizat Germania” is a project at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz focused on the search for and analysis of Hebrew and Aramaic binding fragments found in the books and files of archives and libraries. In recent years this systematic search has revealed several hundred new fragments, including some rare Talmudic, Midrashic and liturgical fragments. The new discoveries both in Germany and elsewhere in Europe have broadened the knowledge of Jewish literature in the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods. This volume collects the papers of international scholars which cover recent discoveries in Germany, the “European Genizah” or fragments found in Italy, Poland, Great Britain and Austria, the approaches of similar projects in Austria and the Czech Republic, as well as an extensive bibliography.


Hebrew Texts in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Surroundings

Hebrew Texts in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Surroundings

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-01-03

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9004358404

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Hebrew Texts in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Surroundings offers a new perspective on Judaism, Christianity and Islam as religions of the book. Their problematic relation seems to indicate that there is more that divides than unites these religions. The present volume will show that there is an intricate web of relations between the texts of these three religious traditions. On many levels readings and interpretations intermingle and influence each other. Studying the multifaceted history of the way Hebrew texts were read and interpreted in so many different contexts may contribute to a better understanding of the complicated relation between Jews, Christians and Muslims. These studies are dedicated to Dineke Houtman honouring her work as professor of Jewish-Christian relations.


Studies in the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature

Studies in the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature

Author: Ronit Nikolsky

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-11-15

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 9004469192

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This book explores the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature, an important Jewish homiletic genre prevailing in late antiquity and early Byzantine Palestine. Originating in the culture of the study house, and addressing the synagogue audience, this literature allows us to follow the reception of the rabbinic culture in the wider Jewish society.


Books within Books

Books within Books

Author: Andreas Lehnardt

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-09-25

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9004258507

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Books within Books presents some recent findings and research projects on the fragments of medieval Hebrew manuscripts discovered in the bindings of other manuscripts and early printed books across Europe. This is the second collection of interdisciplinary articles on Hebrew binding fragments presenting current scholarship and its international scope. From the contemporary perspective, the fragments of medieval Hebrew manuscripts preserved until today, through their numbers (estimated 30,000 fragments, so more than double of the number of the known Hebrew volumes produced in medieval Europe ), the texts they carry (some of them have been previously unknown), the insights into book making techniques and finally their economic impact, are an unprecedented source for our knowledge of the Hebrew book culture and literacy as well as the economic and intellectual exchanges between the Jewish minority and their non-Jewish neighbours.


A Universal Art. Hebrew Grammar across Disciplines and Faiths

A Universal Art. Hebrew Grammar across Disciplines and Faiths

Author: Nadia Vidro

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2014-06-05

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9004277056

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A Universal Art. Hebrew Grammar Across Disciplines and Faiths reflects on medieval and early modern Hebrew linguistics as a discipline that crossed geographic and religious borders and linked up with a plethora of scholarly activities, from Judaeo-Arabic Bible translations to the Renaissance search for the holiest alphabet. This collection of articles presents a cross-section of new research avenues on Hebraism, Karaite, Rabbanite and Christian, with an emphasis on the transmission of linguistic ideas through time and space among different communities, cultures and religious currents. The resulting picture is one of intrinsic variation and dynamic growth as opposed to the linear paradigm of development, culmination and stagnation current in the historiography of Hebrew linguistics.